250 THE ENGLISH SPARROW IN AMERICA. 



Columbus, Ohio State University (suburbs). William B. Alwood: We Lave never ob- 

 served the Sparrows injuring fruits of any kind, although we have taken some care 

 to notice them. (July 16, 1887. Present more than ten years.) 



Hamilton. George Harbron : It injures young peas, radishes, and lettuce. (Sep- 

 tember 13, 1886. Present about eighteen years. ^ 



Napoleon. J. L. Haltes : It injures cherries and sweet apples. (September 2, 1886. 

 Present eight or ten years.) 



New Lisbon. J. F. Benner: I know that it injures grapes and mulberries. (August 

 27, 1886. Present about six years.) 



North Bend (suburbs). R. H. Warder : It oats small fruits and is very troublesome 

 among grapes ; it also eats lettuce seed and peas. (November 27, 1886. Present 

 about eleven years.) 



Norwalk. S. Gray : It will eat almost any fruit, and also garden seeds. It is hard 

 on ripe apples. (April 23, 1884. Present about five years.) 



South Salem. W. N. Irwin : Among the forest-tree seeds that I noticed them work- 

 ing on were sassafras and spice-wood, and the only good I found them at was eating 

 the rag-weed seed, so abundant in this State. (December 26, 1887.) 



Wadsworth. Dr. J. F.Detweiler: They destroyed most of the pea and bean crop 

 of a neighbor by pecking the young leaves as they appeared above the ground. (De- 

 cember 10, 1887. Present about thirteen years.) 



Weymouth. Dr. Frank Young: It does not injure fruits or vegetables. It injures 

 flax. (August 20, 1886. Present about six years.) 



Pennsylvania. — Berwick. Dr. A. B. McCrea : Lettuce, peas, and beets are its favor- 

 ite food in the early spring, and often the entire bed is destroyed. It also destroys 

 grapes to a considerable extent. (September 1, 1885.) 



Collegeville. C. A. Rittenhouse : It injures grapes and strawberries to a large ex- 

 tent. (1885.) 



Gap (country). John C. Linville: It scratches out and eats small garden seeds 

 after they are planted. (November 16, 1886.) 



Germantown (suburbs). Thomas Meehan : It injures strawberries and peas, and wild 

 cedar trees are stripped of their berries as fast as they color. (August 21, 1886. 

 Present twenty years or more.) 



HolUdaysburgh (country). M.A.Young: They have been decidedly injurious here 

 by pulling up early vegetables. (December 22, 1886. Present four or five years.) 



Lancaster. Dr. S. S. Rathvon : Possibly it may injure garden fruits or vegetables, 

 but I have not observed it, nor have I been able to positively ascertain that it doas 

 so. (October 8, 1886. Present sixteen years or more.) 



Newport. E. L. Knight: It attacks divers vegetables, but does not injure them, 

 or fruits, to any appreciable extent. (April 30, 1884. Present ten or twelve years.) 



Philadelphia. J. Percy Moore : I have often seen the Sparrow feeding on cherries, 

 (July 18, 1885), and several times on wild grapes (Octoberl9), but never on cultivated 

 ones, at least I have no records in my notes of sucli observations. (October 15, 

 1885.) 



Philadelphia. F. R. Welsb : It feeds on no fruit but cherries, as far as I know, and 

 the damage to these is very trifling. It seems to eat only the cherries that other 

 birds or insects have made holes in. (October 6, 1885.) 



Pottslown. John H. Steele : It eats the early salad plants and devours the peas. 

 (May 15, 1884.) I have repeatedly seen it take grapes when ripening, and it also takes 

 cherries. It eats early lettuce, peas, and other small green vegetables. (August 19, 

 1886. ' Present about sixteen years.) 



Rhode Island. — Providence. W. V. Osterhout : It is very fond of cherries and 

 grapes, and when these fruits are ripe it really does a great deal of damage. (May 

 9, 1887. Present twenty years or more.) 



Tennessee. — Lawrenceburgh. W. T. Nixon: It does not injure garden vegetables 

 or small fruits. I have observed it feeding on the berries of the honeysuckle when 



